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Durward Knowles

1917 - 2018

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Sir Durward Randolph Knowles (2 November 1917 – 24 February 2018) was a sailor and Olympic champion from The Bahamas. He won the gold medal in the Star class at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, together with Cecil Cooke. He won the bronze medal in the same class at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Durward Knowles has received more than 63,699 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Durward Knowles is the 661st most popular athlete (down from 477th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from The Bahamas (down from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Bahamian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Durward Knowles ranks 661 out of 6,025. Before him are Tim Ahearne, Amos Biwott, Akilles Järvinen, Charles Blondin, Carlo Pavesi, and Charles Greene. After him are Fernando Altimani, Gösta Andersson, Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston, Mike Larrabee, Bill Roberts, and František Čapek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Durward Knowles ranks 252. Before him are Odd Lundberg, Juan Tuñas, Vernon A. Walters, Edgar Barth, Phyllis Diller, and William P. Gottlieb. After him are Gösta Andersson, Kenkichi Iwasawa, Tony Cliff, Richard Boone, Pavel Solovyov, and Luigi Cantone. Among people deceased in 2018, Durward Knowles ranks 320. Before him are Neagu Djuvara, Abdelmalek Benhabyles, Hugh Masekela, Ilie Balaci, Soon-Tek Oh, and Kedarnath Singh. After him are Connie Sawyer, Nancy Wilson, John Miles, Helena Almeida, István Géczi, and Ferenc Kósa.

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In The Bahamas

Among people born in The Bahamas, Durward Knowles ranks 3 out of 31. Before him are Arthur Foulkes (1928), and Perry Christie (1943). After him are Philip Davis (1951), Kimbo Slice (1974), Sebastian Bach (1968), Hubert Minnis (1954), Lynden Pindling (1930), Calvin Lockhart (1934), Donald Thomas (1984), Persia White (1972), and Mark Knowles (1971).

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Among ATHLETES In The Bahamas

Among athletes born in The Bahamas, Durward Knowles ranks 1. After him are Donald Thomas (1984), Chandra Sturrup (1971), Shaunae Miller-Uibo (1994), Troy Kemp (1966), Chris Brown (1978), Pauline Davis-Thompson (1966), Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie (1976), Avard Moncur (1978), Steven Gardiner (1995), Tonique Williams-Darling (1976), and Savatheda Fynes (1974).

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